| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | To a Very Young Lady | | By Sir George Etherege (1635?–1691) |
| | | SWEETEST Bud of Beauty! may | |
| No untimely frost decay | |
| The early glories, which we trace | |
| Blooming in thy matchless face. | |
| But kindly opening, like the rose, | 5 |
| Fresh beauties, every day disclose; | |
| Such as by Nature are not shown | |
| In all the blossoms she has blown: | |
| And then, what conquest shall you make; | |
| Who hearts already daily take! | 10 |
| Scorched, in the morning with thy beams, | |
| How shall we bear those sad extremes | |
| Which must attend thy threatening eyes, | |
| When thou shalt to thy noon arise? | | | | |
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